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since you're being deliberately obtuse, i'll spell it out for you on his behalf.

WILL USERS STILL LIKE IT, WHICH IS WHAT GETS DEVELOPER SUPPORT, NOW THAT IT COSTS MONEY?

ask any woman how often she considers her personal safety navigating the world. consider how often you do it.

keep telling women what to do because you know better, i'm sure that will end the sexism really fast

i guess the advanced high school was so advanced they still had recess...

your faith in the police to protect women is almost charmingly naive.

the daily life of most women is filled with navigating a hostile space that may break out into sexual violence at any time.

having an obsessed troll on the internet following you around, or threatening you before you show up to a conference, goes way beyond what you're talking about here.

your whole point comes from a place of the privilege of relative security. imagine that is not the case.

empathy will fix it.

you are illustrative of the problem because you are a) ignorant of what harassment is really like b) apparently unwilling to imagine it and c) BLAMING THE HARASSED

TBH i think the email method mentioned up-thread is more awesome, but wtf do i know. you could do that more quickly, it would seem to me.

Here you go, Sergey: "You're being a dick."

i like the site. i would prefer a more passive indicator, that indicates my status in a less strident tone.

i read it as making fun of knee jerk anti-new-language types, as in, all their arguments are pat and repetitive.

maybe that's just my perceptual bias, but perhaps also the greater context of hacker news that you point to in your comment. i tend to believe that things are posted here in support of experimentation.

http://news.ycombinator.com

apparently.

"For one, it begs credulity that someone who has filed patent applications dealing with cryptography had never heard of Bitcoin until I asked about it. That would be like a journalist claiming he never heard of Twitter."

this is a baseless assertion and essentially the crux of his argument. maybe real cryptographers don't spend any time thinking about bitcoin because it has the same relationship as twitter and real journalism.

(IANAL)

more than likely, yes. see US vs. auernheimer for a recent example. the complaint is here: http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/fil...

The complaint indicates that AT&T's publicly accessible endpoint is a protected computer under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1030(e)(2). a protected computer is basically any computer used for interstate or foreign commerce in the US, or outside the US if it affects the commerce thereof.

the issue hinges on intent - if you know that you're exceeding authorized access to obtain something of value. 18 USC 1030 was created in 1986 by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and is often panned for being incredibly broad.

See this wikipedia page for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

(IANAL)

so... you give it your location? from your cellphone? sounds pretty anonymous.

don't you ever question the strange phenomenon of these giant inhuman corporations manipulating us to the point where we choose one as a team, adopting our allegiance to them as an salient feature of our identity?

they don't give a fuck about us, at all - by definition, they are incapable of doing so.

such a good service - hope the project continues to receive the kind of stewardship it has gotten thus far.

if you haven't tried it, you're missing out.

have you used either one? because you'd understand why acquiring assistly is more attractive.

It's true that OnStar's TOS is awful, but the author leaps to several inflammatory conclusions that, to me, seem unjustified.

The most obvious one is when he mentions the boilerplate about a part of OnStar being sold, and then theorizes that they are actually planning to sell, perhaps even to one of those great boogeymen, Apple or Google.

they're both smug - what's confusing to me is why anyone who is not a major shareholder of these enormous corporations has feelings about these relatively boring narratives.

MIT - not a school known for its English or Journalism programs.

this stack is... interesting. but the real problem, i think, with what he's saying, is that it is basically "i refuse to learn anything new that is not tightly bound to what i already know".

it's true that the laughter is unnecessary, and the trends and hype can be obnoxious, but it is somewhat about the excitement of always learning new things and new ways to think.

if groupon is losing money on every customer, adding more customers actually exacerbates the cash flow problem, and every time those customers buy a deal, groupon goes farther in the hole. they use the cash to pay their oldest debts but eventually there will be a reckoning.

it's unfathomable to me that it would be an attractive investment.

Remember "Dabblers and Blowhards" http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

it's increasingly clear that groupon is essentially a ponzi scheme with some graphic design. can't wait for the post mortem documentary a la "the smartest guys in the room".

thanks for your response - do you have a link to any data that shows the outcome of holding the basket of goods fixed? i will try to find some as well, just thought you might have some data handy.

i don't think you can really make an argument that the GDP graph given in the google link is applicable to what i said. but if you can, i'd be interested to hear it.

living standards have improved despite the rich getting richer.

Citation needed. Please explain how the living standard in the US can have improved if real wages have fallen. Oh wait, the answer is an incredible increase in consumer debt. That seems to be working out.

Keep calm and carry on.

check out item no 3. on this list, which is AWS lessons-learned: http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/5-lessons-weve-learned-u...

see also: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-...

and: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/07/netflix-simian-army.html for the other simian themed services they've developed for care and feeding of their AWS stuff.

it was obvious from that comment alone, and then became overwhelmingly obvious that that is why he was uncomfortable based on his other responses in the thread.